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by bendykstra 9y ago
Oh, I really like this idea. I might go with a number greater than two though for the aesthetic reason that 25% of the time, you will select a song that has been played more recently than half of the playlist. With four, you'd be selec
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by bendykstra 9y ago
Also, there's almost zero food waste (assuming you eat everything) as they provide ingredients in the amounts required by the recipe.
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by bendykstra 9y ago
That is known as a misplaced modifier. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/1/36/
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by bendykstra 9y ago
I'm curious why it is not possible to import data from an SQLite file.
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by bendykstra 9y ago
There is humor in the disparity between the resources and people marshalled to resolve the issue (including Bill Gates himself) and the humble origin of the issue, a shower curtain.
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A Lizard with Scales That Behave Like a Cellular Automaton(nytimes.com)
1 points by bendykstra 9y ago|0 comments
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by bendykstra 9y ago
The self-incrimination clause was motivated by the practice of forced confessions, which were elicited by threats, indefinite detention and torture. You can get a DNA sample with a cotton swab, but it takes much worse to extract information
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Wow, norms change quickly. I traveled with my golden retriever several times last spring (always asking first by phone) and the drivers were all genuinely surprised when I offered a tip at the end of the ride.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Also, e.g., the Moon landing conspiracy theories involving Hollywood and director Stanley Kubrick.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
The amount of competition in the beer world is just incredible. (I just checked with a beer-enthusiast friend and he tried over 1000 different beers just in 2016.) To get people's attention and then to maintain a reputation as a great
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by bendykstra 10y ago
It's not necessary in any real sense, but a foul-mouthed astronaut who doesn't swear isn't a foul-mouthed astronaut. It's a trait that works well with the character's irreverent attitude.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
USPS is especially bad. Google 'how to talk to a human at USPS' for an illustration of their approach to customer service. Then know that the advice on the first page of links is all obsolete. USPS is plugging the 'security f
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by bendykstra 10y ago
On what grounds?
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Interesting predictions: 1. Exercise videos 2. A work environment reminiscent of the world of 1984 "Usual office rush. At 10, we salesmen all gathered in Television Hall, where the president of the company gave us a fight talk. He is i
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Visions of 1946 (1936)(rfcafe.com)
2 points by bendykstra 10y ago|1 comments
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by bendykstra 10y ago
> If Hillary Clinton had won, the same kinds of people on the other side would be attacking 538 for being too bullish on Trump. In fact, that very thing did happen in the week leading up to the election, so sure were some that Clinton wo
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by bendykstra 10y ago
There were other issues as well. Decommissioning[1] With a total of 438 malfunctions during its operational lifetime from 1964 to 1972, the reactor at McMurdo proved to be an unreliable source of power generation, available only 72% of the
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by bendykstra 10y ago
I have had Spotify for about a year and have never had to connect Facebook.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
The article fails to mention that the genie lamp configuration relies on additional "point weights," which are blocks of zero height and width and non-zero weight. In the figure, those are represented by arrows. http://
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by bendykstra 10y ago
His point is that Apple should show the energy consumption rate in addition to the percentage indicator, just as cars show fuel consumption as mpg and fuel remaining as a percentage.
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by bendykstra 10y ago
The disclaimer might be new, but not the product placement. The first season of Netflix's House of Cards, which aired in 2013, had an obnoxious amount. It even made its way into the dialogue, turning one scene into a 10 second ad. &quo
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by bendykstra 10y ago
It wasn't until 1983 that half of American daily newspapers included some color[1]. It was probably not economical before that time to print the catalogs in color. And if you're not going to print them in color, it doesn't ma
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Tesla is a unit of magnetic field strength. Hertz is a unit of frequency. Siemens is a measure of electric conductance. Try to find an SI unit that isn't also a company or product. Trademarks aren't about owning a word, only abou
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by bendykstra 10y ago
That reminds me of the photocopier that used a very poorly chosen image compression algorithm. It would sometimes substitute similar looking characters to save space. A $7000 figure in a budget might become $9000 and a person looking over t
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Unsurprisingly, those turned out to be fabrications. Regardless, these models aggregate dozens to hundreds of polling organizations. If Monmouth tried to 'create a narrative,' as described in the purported memo it would just end u
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Saul Griffith[1]. There's also Herbert Stein's Law: Trends that can't continue, won't. [1] http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/11/its-not-exponential-its-sig...
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by bendykstra 10y ago
The internet has made it very easy to shield ourselves from the arguments of people with differing views. Disclaimers such as this are just another way for us to filter what we read and further isolate ourselves ideologically. Who cares who
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by bendykstra 10y ago
"Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, a
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by bendykstra 10y ago
Postscript: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/09/nyregion/dormant-fire-hydr...
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by bendykstra 10y ago
It's the word 'also.' Its position at the start of the clause sets up the expectation that the activity also does something, rather than others.

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